Yields information about the impacts of the closure of the Geelong system to provide "speaking notes" for Ballarat and Bendigo Managers., Yields information about the impacts of the closure of the Geelong system to provide "speaking notes" for Ballarat and Bendigo Managers.Memorandum, from Engineer and Manager to Acting Manager Ballarat dated 31/5/1957, titled "Tramways" report in an article in "The Transport Journal" April 1957 issue reporting on the replacement of the SEC Operated Geelong trams by private buses, costs, new buses by each operators and the additional taxes earned by Government as a result - eg seat taxes and registration fees.trams, tramways, geelong, buses, closure, regulations

Coloured map of Melbourne's Tram and Bus routes, route numbers, rail lines, detailed for the central part of Melbourne and insert section for Frankston. On rear description of routes, private bus routes and map of Melbourne metro lines. Has contact details for bookings and lost property etc. Priced 15c. Inscription dates the map as 1974. Yields information about public transport services in Melbourne as a comparison with that of Ballarat.Fold out map (27 sections 9 across x 3 deep), printed on paper.trams, tramways, railways, melbourne, map, tram and bus services, mmtb, minister for transport, public transport

Cable trams operated in Melbourne from 1885 to 1940. Initially by the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Co (a private operator) then the "Tramway Board" from 1916 to 1919 until the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board took over. This strip of two tickets would have been a set of pre-purchased ticket in a lot of eight (8) tickets (1/- worth). Priced 1 1/2d each. On the rear lists the lines available and the section available. Issued by the Tramway BoardDemonstrates a Melbourne cable tram ticket issued by the Tramway BoardLight yellow coloured card printed strip ticket with perforations - two prepurchased tickets.cable trams, tickets, tramway board, melbourne

Yields information about a tour by a Melbourne private schools tour to Ballarat in 1961 and the costs and the Schools club association.Magazine - 14 quarto pages, Gestetner duplicated stapled on left hand side titled "Railway Club Review Vol. 3, No. 4" with a photo of an VR AEC rail motor on the front. Contains a listing of the club committee, news from the various school club, coming trips, articles including a report on the trip to Ballarat and visiting the tram system. See also Reg items 6668 for the tour booking form and 2137 for a photograph of tram 32.trams, tramways, tours, vsrca, ballarat, booking form

Digital image of Tram 17 westbound in Sturt St at Lydiard St with the destination of Gardens via Sturt St West. In the background is the Cooks Private Hotel, the Ballarat Mechanics Institute, T&G, Patersons and Dickens food store. There are no trams in the City Loop. In the foreground is the curve for trams travelling from Lydiard St into Sturt St. Photo by Peter Knife 24/7/1971.Yields information about tram operations in Ballarat, some two months before closure of the SEC operated tram system.Digital image of a colour slide.tramways, tramcars, ballarat, tram 17, sturt st

Yields information about the appearance of ex ESCo No. 22 at a private property near Sebastopol in 1971.Set of three Colour 27 x 27 mm slides in Kodachrome cardboard mounts of ESCo 22 in the yard at south Sebastopol October 1971. Photo from the collection of Lilian Butler.ballarat, tramways, trams, esco, sale of trams, sebastopol, tram 22

Yields information about a tour by a Melbourne private schools tour to Ballarat in 1961 and the costs.Top part of a booking form, Gestener printed, for a tour to Ballarat - "Victorian School Railway Clubs' Association - Ballarat Tram Tour", for the 23/7/1961. Gives details of the tour, trains, and times. J.R. Brady noted as Secretary. See Reg Item 7092 for a report on the tour and 2137 for a photograph of the tramcar.trams, tramways, tours, vsrca, ballarat, booking form

Yields information about the tram operations and the landscape views of the Sturt St median strip.Ten (10) Digital images taken by George Coop during the period 1968 - 1970, of SEC trams in Sturt St, between the City and Pleasant Streets. .1 - Tram 26 climbing the Sturt St hill to Lydiard St, with the Cook's Private Hotel, the Commonwealth Bank and the National Mutual Life building in the background. Photo taken from the Titanic Bandstand. .2 - Tram 40 Sturt St, enough to Lydiard St North just before Raglan St. Has a lady passenger by the tram stop. .3 - Tram 30 - Sturt St north side, near Armstrong St, - has a blue framing line around the photograph. .4 - Tram 39, Sturt St, near Doveton St, shows the rotunda in the median strip. .5 - Tram 18, with median step in view. .6 - Tram 31, with two Johnnie Walker whiskey roof adverts, outside the National Mutual Life building with the Alan Bros Jewellers and Golden Star Chinese Cafe in the view. .7 - Tram 31, Sturt St south side with Town Hall and the Golden City Hotel in the view. Tram has destination of Gardens via Drummond North. .8 - Tram 41 - ditto - going to Sebastopol. .9 - Tram 13, south side, Gardens via Sturt West, about , near Ripon St, with the Ampol service station in the background and about to pick up a lady passenger .10 - Tram 17, near Doveton St. Has a Twin Lakes sign and a Wilkinson Sword Razor Bladese roof advert. trams, tramways, sturt st, raglan st, passengers, doveton st, tram 26, tram 40, tram 30, tram 39, tram 18, tram 31, tram 41, tram 13, tram 17

Yields information about Sturt St and the Robert Burns Statue in 1960..Agfa colour slide, white cardboard mount, photo by Keith Caldwell on 8/3/1960 of: Tram 39 in Sturt St to the east of Lydiard St about to descend the hill to Grenville St. Tram has the destination of Mt Pleasant. In the background is the Robert Burns statue and the Cooks Private Hotel which is decorated with a British Flag.Stamped on bottom of slide "8 Mar 60".tramways, trams, sturt st, lydiard st, statues, tram 39

Has a strong association with those people featured in the photograph - a possible private tour group, c1946/47.Negative and Digital image of the Wal Jack Ballarat Negative file of six tramway enthusiasts standing at the end of either No. 17 or 27 at the Sebastopol terminus, mid to late 1940's. The Tower truck is alongside the tram. The second person from the left as advised by Paul Nicholson 26/3/2020 is Mike Ronald, centre is possibly David Burke, 4th person from the left is Noel Gipps or Leon Marshall Wood, Richard Gilchrist and the person on the left could be Ronald E Murray from NSW See Reg item 7602 for the same group on No. 33 at the depot.trams, tramways, sebastopol, enthusiasts, tours, tram 27? tram 17?

Has a strong association with those people featured in the photograph - a possible private tour group, c1946/47.Negative and Digital image of the Wal Jack Ballarat Negative file of seven tramway enthusiasts in or around No. 33 at the depot, mid to late 1940's. Photo is out of focus. See Reg Item 7601 for the same group.trams, tramways, depot, enthusiasts, tours, tram 33

Photo of a privately operated bus in Swanston St. Melbourne at the intersection of Bourke St., with Foys (Foy and Gibson) department store in the background. Bourke St. trams yet to be built. Photo taken 10-4-1950. Also has the Cosmopolitan Hotel in the background. From information provided by the Bus and Coach Society of Victoria: "The bus outside Foys belongs to Lew Page who was one of the multiple operators on Route 1 in 1950 ( he also had one bus on Route 2) which was four years before they amalgamated to form Melbourne - Brighton Bus Lines. The bus is a Reo with a Giles body. Giles Motor Body Works was based in New Street Brighton and built bodies for commercial vehicles but not a lot of buses. Their half a dozen post-war buses mainly went to operators in Routes 1 and 2. Being on Route 1, the bus would have been red and cream." Yields information about private bus lines in Melbourne and the Foy & Gibson building.Black and white print and hi res scan of a donated negative. tramways, trams, melbourne, swanston st, foy & gibson, bourke st., lew page, giles, melbourne brighton bus

Pocket size - folded - public transport map of Melbourne, printed in colours showing the bus, train and tram routes around Melbourne. Has a cover price of 10c. No printing date shown, but c1970 as distances are still in imperial, the West gate bridge is shown, though so is the Williamstown Ferry. Gives telephone numbers in 6 digit figures. Lists route numbers for trams, tramways board bus services and private services. Gives various telephone numbers for further information. Notes the map is a combined effort of the Tramways Board, Victorian Railways, Bus Proprietors' Association and the Transport Regulation Board. Single sheet of paper folded in 9 x 3 folds.trams, tramways, melbourne, map, public transport, routes

Photo of Albert St. Sebastopol, looking towards the Sebastopol terminus. Taken from the front of the tram. Shows the nature of the track construction, long grass in front of some of the houses, private driveway crossings and pole mounted telephone lines. Kodak cardboard mount slide, taken by Peter Moses January 1966.On back of slide in blue ink "Jan. 1966, Tram line to Sebastopol" and bottom right hand corner "P. Moses".tramways, trams, albert st, track construction, sebastopol

Set of 15 35mm Agfa colour blue and white plastic mount slide - of a private tour using No. 37 in Ballarat, on 28/8/1971 (WAD photo collection has one photo of the tram on tour on that date.) No. 37 has an SEC roof advertisement, 'Everything is under control in my all electric kitchen". Photo Eldon Hogan Scanning errors on .9, which have resulted in distortions. 3038.1 - At Lydiard St North terminus. .2 - Sturt St, near Doveton St with Town Hall and Myers Store in background. .3 - At the Sebastopol terminus, with the Sebastopol Royal Mail Hotel in the background. .4 - with the service car behind No. 37. .5 - ditto .6 - crossing Albert St, near Ophir St. .7 - northbound along Albert St .8 - Turning from North Side of Sturt St at Hospital Corner into Drummond St Sth, with Shell service station in background at Hospital Corner. .9 - Using the Dawson St crossing, with the Golden City Hotel in the background. .10 - ditto .11 - Grant St. loop, Barkly St, Mt Pleasant, 39 crossing in bound service car. .12 - ditto with 37 in the picture. .13 - 37 at Mt. Pleasant Terminus .14 - 37, 39 and another single trucker at Grant St. loop .15 - ditto High Res image of i13 added 8/5/2019 from Peter Lambert.tramways, trams, lydiard st nth, sebastopol, albert st, sturt st, dawson st, mt pleasant, grant st, barkly st, tram 37, tram 39

Set of 5 35mm Agfa colour blue and white plastic mount slide - of a private tour using No. 21 in Ballarat, possibly on 28/8/1971. No. 21 has an SEC roof advertisement, 'Everything is under control in my all electric kitchen". Photo Eldon Hogan Scanning errors on .1, which have resulted in distortions. 3038.1 - No. 21, followed by No. 37, Wendouree Parade, near Haddon St.? .2 - 21 Wendouree Parade, View Point Junction area. .3 - ditto .4 - ditto .5 - ditto tramways, trams, wendouree parade, view point, tram 37, tram 21

Sixteen page printed report, stapled in top left hand corner, titled "Trams, Deficits move out as private buses move in", extracted from Truck and Bus Transportation March and April 1957, about the replacement of the trams in Geelong. Written by a bus person. Part 1 - Looks at the changeover from trams to buses, background to the tram service in Geelong, political issues, publicity, bus companies and areas operate, peak hour services, buses used, standards, traffic levels, miles operated, drivers viewpoints. Part II - looks at the savings by bus operations, no fare subsidies at the time, gives a table of losses on Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong from 1931, track replacement costs, details of the three companies operating buses, Trans Otway, Benders and Corio Bus Lines and other operators in the Geelong region. Obtained by Graeme Cleak from the Internet and copy given to Gavin Young Scanned entire document and added 2/9/12. trams, tramways, geelong, buses, reports, tram bus services, closure

Pocket size - folded - public transport map of Melbourne, printed in colour on paper, showing public transport services in greater Melbourne and an index of localities. The Central zone area shown in detail. On the rear, route numbers and line maps of tram routes and train lines or services. Includes private bus routes. Printed for the Ministry of Transport. Issue No. 9. Dated 1979.trams, tramways, melbourne, map, routes

Small printed poster, advertising a protest meeting to save the trams, in the Lower Civic Hall in Ballarat on Sunday 1 September 1968. Titled "Save our Trams", with details of the protest meeting and the takeover of the trams by private enterprise, with no Saturday afternoon, Sunday services. Printed by Alex King and Sons of Ballarat on off - white paper. See also item 3328 - for a similar poster - presumed made by the same persons.trams, tramways, closure, ballarat, protest, meetings

Political pamphlet, published by the Australian Labor Party for the Saturday May 30, 1970 state election titled "Ballarat Must Retain its Public Transport". Printed in red ink on off white art paper, features Ballarat 42 crossing Albert St Sebastopol. Gives quotes from Liberal members supportive of private transport in Ballarat. On rear gives five points of the Labor party why private transport should be kept, and photos of the candidates for Ballarat South (Ted Cullen), Ballarat Province (The Hon Jack Jones) and Ballarat North (Kevin Flynn). See Alan Bradley, Trams of the Golden City - from the draft - "During the campaign for the State election of May 30, 1970 the Labor Party and tramways union campaigned for the retention of “public transport” by voting labor. But the Bolte Government was returned, all four Ballarat Liberal members held their seats, and most importantly the Government won a majority in the Upper House." trams, tramways, ballarat, public transport, elections, alp, labor party

Digital image from a black and white print of tram 42 running a "Special" climbing the Sturt St hill up to Lydiard St, shows the steep hill. In the background is Cooks Private Hotel, Ballarat Travel Centre, Commonwealth Bank, National Mutual Building and Alan Bros. Photo by Marc Dahlstrom c1971. 5056.1 - physical print of the same image, with the Marc Dahlstrom stamp on the rear - added 8-5-2016.On rear is the Marc Dahlstrom stamp.trams, tramways, sturt st, lydiard st, tram 42

Yields information about Ballarat streetscape and its trams in the closing days of the SEC tramway system.Digital image from a black and white print of tram 31 climbing the hill in Sturt St up to Lydiard St, shows the steepness of the hill. Tram has two Johnnie Walker whisky roof advertisements, a Twin Lakes sign and is showing Special. In the background are a Discount store, a Thrifty furniture van, Cooks Private Hotel, the Commonwealth Bank and the National Mutual Building. Photo by Marc Dahlstrom c1971.On rear is the Marc Dahlstrom stamp.trams, tramways, sturt st, lydiard st, tram 31

Newspaper clipping from a Melbourne paper? (Melbourne Herald? - given the dateline on the top of the cutting) dated Jan. 1956, titled "Overhead Tram Gear will go" reporting that work on pulling down the overhead will soon be started following the completion of tram services in Ryrie St on this Saturday night. Privately operated buses taking over, notes final closure on March 5, road repairs and SEC paying Councils for the road works over a 8 year period. Note on rear has a "Herald Index" of share prices. Contained originally within Reg Item 5623 at the front of this note book. For items see btm5623 loose items list.pdf.geelong, closure, overhead

Newspaper clipping from the Ballarat Courier? - 26-11-1955, titled "Geelong's trams go by March 31", replacing Geelong's 17 trams by 100 buses using five private companies. Quotes Mr A. J. Decon, Transport Operators Association President, and of Trans Otway Ltd. - about the take over of the first route in Jan. East-West. Contained originally within Reg Item 5623 at the front of this note book. For items see btm5623 loose items list.pdf.has date "26-11-55" in ink on right hand side at top.geelong, buses, closure

Covers the development of the battery tramway, depot, battery tramcar operations, steam locomotives, horse trams, steam trams, track, managers of the private company, ESCo purchase, electric trams, trams from Melbourne, SEC, description and extension to North Bendigo. May have been copied from another source.Yields information about the history of tramway operations in Bendigo and the tramcars.Handwritten copy of an article or an original article, titled "Bendigo Tramways 1890 - 1942" Eleven pages. Contained within Reg Item 5485 - Service Exercise Book, black covers, with label, red binding titled "No. 2 - Ballarat Tramways & S.E.C. Systems". trams, tramways, bendigo, battery trams, steam trams, sec, esco

Yields information about Sturt St between Grenville St and Lydiard St and the south side of the street.Digital image, black and white, of No. 13 climbing the hill between Grenville St and Lydiard St, past the City Loop with Cooks Private Hotel in the background. Photo taken by Peter Bruce 1970's and 1971, prior to the closure of the Ballarat tramway system. Peter's Title of image: "No. 13 up the hill"trams, tramways, sturt st, grenville st, city loop, tram 14